As deadlock over farm laws continues, farmers move SC for resolution

Protests set to be intensified; govt launches nationwide outreach campaign

As the government directed Delhi Police to file cases against protesting farmers for violating Covid-19 norms, the farmers too upped the ante and filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking its intervention in ending the deadlock over the new farm laws.

Two officials of Delhi Police on duty at the site of the agitation have tested positive for Covid-19 and have been put in isolation.

On Saturday, farmer groups will take their protests up one notch by picketing all toll plazas on the outskirts of Delhi and blocking railway tracks. They will hand over memorandums to district magistrates wherever